Children of men

Resource Information

The work Children of men represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Gleason Public Library (Carlisle). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Children of men

Statement of responsibility

Universal Pictures presents a Strike Entertainment production in association with Hit & Run Productions ; produced by Marc Abraham, Eric Newman, Hilary Shor, Iain Smith, Tony Smith ; screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby ; directed by Alfonso Cuarón

Creator

• Children of men (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Smith, Tony
• Hit and Run Productions
• Strike Entertainment (Firm)
• Universal Pictures (Firm)
• Abraham, Marc
• Arata, David
• Caine, Michael
• Cuarón, Alfonso
• Ejiofor, Chiwetel, 1974-
• Fergus, Mark
• Hunnam, Charlie, 1980-
• James, P. D
• Moore, Julianne
• Newman, Eric
• Ostby, Hawk
• Owen, Clive
• Sexton, Timothy J.
• Shor, Hilary
• Smith, Iain.

Actor

• Caine, Michael
• Owen, Clive
• Moore, Julianne
• Hunnam, Charlie, 1980-
• Ejiofor, Chiwetel, 1974-

Director

• Cuarón, Alfonso

Producer

• Shor, Hilary
• Abraham, Marc
• Newman, Eric
• Smith, Iain.
• Smith, Tony

Screenwriter

• Ostby, Hawk
• Fergus, Mark
• Cuarón, Alfonso
• Arata, David
• Sexton, Timothy J.

Subject

• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs
• Action and adventure films
• End of the world -- Drama
• Feature films
• History teachers -- Drama
• Infertility, Male -- Drama
• Oxford (England) -- Drama
• Science fiction films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Twenty-first century -- Drama

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Science fiction films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Action and adventure films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Feature films
• Drama

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng

Summary

London, 2027. Humanity has become infertile and no child has been born for 18 years. Science is at loss to explain the reason. Immigration is a crime and regugees are caged like animals. African and East European societies have collapsed and their dwindling populations are migrating toward England and other wealthy nations. Torn apart by nuclear fallout, rampant terrorism and political rebellion. In this climate of nationalistic violence, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat Theo Faron, joins forces with Julian, his revolutionary ex-wife, in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously became pregnant. These three set out on a desperate struggle to deliver the world's only pregnant woman to the Human Project with hope that they can discover the cure for global infertility. As they carefully navigate between the battling forces of military police and a pro-immigration insurgency this small group must endure a death-defying ordeal of urban warfare

Awards note

Venice Film Festival, 2006: Golden Osella - Outstanding Technical Contribution (Emmanuel Lubezki) ; Laterna Magica Prize (Alfonso Cuarón).

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Emmanuel Lubezki ; editors, Alfonso Cuarón, Alex Rodríguez ; music, John Tavener ; costume designer, Jany Temime ; production designers, Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland ; special effects supervisor, Paul Corbould ; visual effects supervisors, Frazer Churchill, Timothy Webber

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for strong violence, language, some drug use and brief nudity

Language note

Includes French and Spanish dubbed versions and English SDH, Spanish and French subtitles

LC call number

PN1995.9.S87

LC item number

C4553746 2007

PerformerNote

Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam

Runtime

110

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action